Everest area schools donate to EMPD K9 fund

11:35 AM,
Feb. 14, 2013

Student Mai Chong Lee, 15, left, presents a check Feb. 7 to Everest Metro Police Officer Rob Dickerson at D.C. Everest Junior High School in Weston. The students raised money to help the department get a second K9 officer.

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Everest Herald

Students from throughout the D.C. Everest Area School District will hold fundraisers in the coming months to raise money for the local police department.

The D.C. Everest Junior High School culture club raised more than $450 from its eggroll sale, and members donated it to the Everest Metro Police Department's efforts to purchase and train a new K9 unit. Students from Mountain Bay Elementary School also have plans to fundraise for the cause.

The police department's current K9, Lord, who already has served the department for nine years, will retire in the next year, and officials want to ...